2023-01-20 23:33:17 +00:00
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title: Arch Spin pt. 3 - packages.x86_64
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description: Getting all the packages you currently have installed from the Arch repos installed to your Arch ISO
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author: Amolith
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cover: /assets/pngs/arch-spin/pt-3.png
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date: 2018-08-18T16:52:42-04:00
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2023-03-19 23:39:36 +00:00
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draft: false
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2023-01-20 23:33:17 +00:00
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categories:
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- Technology
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tags:
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- Arch Linux
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- Arch Spin
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## Package configuration
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As I said in the last post, this is the file in which you list the
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applications you wish to install. I won't list the defaults because
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there a lot. *However*, this basic setup only builds to a total of ~440
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MB so you can add *many* more applications.
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I want the setup on this bootable to be exactly the same as what I
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currently have on my system. I did not want to manually enter every
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single package though. Thankfully, pacman is a feature-complete tool and
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it lets you get a *lot* of information about installed packages. `pacman
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-Qne` lists all the currently installed packages that you explicitly
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installed. It does not list dependencies of those applications. What I
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did was run `pacman -Qne >> ~/liveiso/packages.x86_64` to add all the
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apps I have installed from the official Arch repos to the end of the
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file so nothing was overwritten.
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After, I ran `pacman -Qni >> official.txt` so I could get information
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about all those packages and decide whether or not I wanted to keep
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them. For example, I removed some stuff from deepin that I no longer
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used, SuperTuxKart, and a lot of other stuff. This shrunk my iso from
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3.6 GB to 2.5. Now I have a lot of space to use for installing my
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applications from the AUR. This includes [making a custom
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repo](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks#Custom_local_repository)
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for the packages and [building them in a
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chroot](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot)
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so you make *sure* you have all the needed dependencies while keeping
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your system from being messed up while building.
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All of this will be discussed in the next blog post (when I get to it).
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